Just as good as Into Thin Air.... A spellbinder.”—Owen Sound Sun-Times

“The fairest, most comprehensive account of [this episode] we’re likely to see.... Tabor analyzes this debacle with the doggedness of an investigative reporter and the technical knowledge of an experienced climber.”—Wall Street Journal

In 1967, seven young men, members of a twelve-man expedition led by twenty-four-year-old Joe Wilcox, were stranded on Alaska’s Mount McKinley in a vicious arctic storm. All seven perished on what remains the most tragic expedition in American climbing history. Revisiting the event in the tradition of Norman McLean’s Young Men and Fire, James M. Tabor uncovers elements of controversy, finger-pointing, and cover-up that combine to make this disaster unlike any other.